Far above a beautiful spectrum,
glittering bridge from heaven to earth,
fills with musical notes to hum,
a view of love's worth.
Glittering bridge from heaven to earth,
smoothly flows the glossy curve,
a view of love's worth,
infuses new life and verve.
Smoothly flows the glossy curve,
heaven and earth's eternal bond,
infuses new life and verve,
enchanting like a magical wand.
Heaven and earth's eternal bond,
fills with musical notes to hum,
enchanting like a magical wand,
far above a beautiful spectrum.
The
pantoum is derived from the pantun, a Malay verse form - specifically from the
pantun berkait, a series of interwoven quatrains.Pantoums are composed entirely
of quatrains (four-line stanzas). There is no restriction on the number of
quatrains, each quatrain follows the rhyme scheme abab within itself. The
characteristic feature of a pantoum, however, is its repetition. The first and
third lines of every stanza (except the first stanza) are identical to the
second and fourth lines of the previous stanza, respectively.
Final Stanza:
The first and third lines of the last stanza are the
second and fourth of the penultimate; the first line of the poem is the last
line of the final stanza, and the third line of the first stanza is the second
of the final